'Dutch Model' Holds Down
Pay Raises, Social Spending

AMSTERDAM -- For Wim Langerdorff, a Dutch artist whose works include surrealist paintings, life is imitating art.

Faced with losing welfare benefits, the 32-year-old got his first job last year -- on a steel-mill loading dock. After that ended, he soon began working part time at the post office, sorting international mail. ''You get a big box of letters and take a handful,'' he explains, demonstrating his technique. ''England,...